Register today - An Evening With Melvin Odoom
Radio 1 DJ and graduate from the University of Bedfordshire Melvin Odoom joins us for one of our popular 'An Evening With' public lectures.
About this event
The University is thrilled to have one of our own returning to host a public lecture. Melvin Odoom, who has worked as a broadcaster across the BBC and ITV, graduated from the University in 2001.
Melvin's lecture will take the form of a Q&A about his life and career and is sure to be inspiring to all those at the University, as well as anybody interested in broadcasting and the media. When registering for the event you can submit a question that may be asked to Melvin on the day.
More details about this event will be revealed soon. Please register for free today to receive updates about this exciting event.
Biography
Melvin Odoom is a BBC Radio 1 presenter and television presenter. Melvin, (alongside Rickie Haywood-Williams and Charlie Hedges) has been hosting on Radio 1 since April 2019 and in September 2021 he moved into the coveted Live Lounge slot 1030am-1pm.
He is also the co-presenter of Got What It Takes on CBBC alongside Anna Maynard.
Previous to this, Melvin hosted Kiss FM's Breakfast show every weekday morning 6 - 10am. The show won Silver at the Sony Radio Awards in 2009 within the category of “Breakfast Show Award”, and was consistently known as the UK’s biggest commercial breakfast with 2 million listeners per week.
Other TV Presenter credits include:
2010: Must Be The Music, Sky1
2008 :MTV shows & The Box
2013-2016: Sweat The Small Stuff x 4 series, Team Captain,BBC3
2014: The Hot Desk, ITV2
2015/2016: Red carpet show at the BRIT Awards ITV2
2015: Melvin and Rochelle Humes were confirmed as the new presenters of The Xtra Factor.
2016: Contestant in the 14th series of Strictly Come Dancing.
2016: Strictly Come Dancing Christmas special. WINNER
2016: Bang On The Money
2017/2018: Lego Masters, C4
2021: Got What It Takes, CBBC
Alongside his work in Radio and TV Melvin’s career has seen him work with some of the biggest brands, most recently working with Ebay to highlight their small business initiative and LEGO which saw him travel to Denmark to host the first ever LEGOCon to a global audience in June 2021.